Untitled Art Podcast: Recent Episodes
Untitled Art Podcast
The Untitled Art Podcast, presented in conjunction with the Untitled Art fairs in Miami Beach, and formerly in San Francisco, explores all things related to contemporary art.
Recorded during our VIP Weekend in Miami in March 2026, tune into an inspiring conversation as part of the Untitled Art Podcast’s ongoing series dedicated to empowering and educating the next generation of art collectors. Panelists include Mario Cader-Frech (Collector and Untitled Art Ambassador), Nina Johnson (Founder, Nina Johnson), and Arushi Kapoor (Co-Founder of The Agency Art House, Untitled Art’s Advisory Partner), moderated by Clive Chang (President and CEO of YoungArts, Untitled Art’s Cultural Partner), at Seia, Miami’s newest hospitality destination by The Bastion Collection.
As the global art calendar continues to expand, art fairs have become central to how artists, galleries, and collectors connect, transact, and build visibility. Yet as their influence grows, so do questions of sustainability, access, and cultural responsibility. This conversation will explore the role of art fairs today, examining their economic and cultural impact, the balance between commerce and community, and how various models, from regional initiatives to more focused formats, are reshaping the international art landscape. This conversation features panelists Chris Sharp (Post Fair LA), Jonny Tanna (Harlesden High Street / Minor Attractions), and Olga Temnikova (Esther, NY), moderated by Untitled Art Executive Director, Clara Andrade.
In an art ecosystem increasingly shaped by galleries and commercial interests, nonprofit arts organizations offer collectors a distinct and often overlooked opportunity: to acquire artworks while directly sustaining the creative infrastructure that fuels contemporary culture. This conversation brings together voices from Miami’s artist-led and nonprofit spaces to discuss how collecting from nonprofits allows buyers to engage with artists more meaningfully and support a sustainable art community. Featuring Julie Egan (Founder, DETROIT SALON), Leyden Rodríguez-Casanova (Co-Founding Director, Dimensions Variable), and Dennis Scholl (Artist, Collector, and Filmmaker), the panel was moderated by Laurie Rojas (Art Critic and Founding Editor, Caesura).
Curated by Jonny Tanna, Founder and Director of Harlesden High Street and Co-Founder of Minor Attractions in London, the 2025 Nest sector embodies an experimental curatorial ethos that bridges social and cultural divides within contemporary art. Nest returned to the 14th edition in a reimagined format as a continuous section within the fair, expanding to feature 36 galleries and underscoring the importance of community and collaboration in experimental art fair models. Moderated by Tanna, the conversation features Nest participants Louis Chapple (Studio/Chapple), Eduardo Medrano Jr (John Doe Gallery), and Bolanle Tajudeen (Bolanle Contemporary).
After the speculative frenzy surrounding NFTs, this conversation reframes the question of digital art by shifting from market-driven hype to cultural substance. The panel considers how blockchain, digital networks, immersive media, and smart contracts are evolving into cultural infrastructure—reshaping authorship, preservation, access, and creative survivability, particularly in contexts where traditional art ecosystems fall short. Featuring Vivek Jayaram (Attorney and Art-Tech Advisor, Jayaram Law), Billy Maker (Founder, Maker Art Projects), and Eddie Negron (Founder, Negron Pizarro), the conversation was moderated by Kavi Gupta (Founder, Kavi Gupta Gallery).
This conversation brings together leading voices from influential art podcasts to explore how digital media, audio storytelling, and social platforms shape the art world’s discourse today. The discussion considers how podcasts and other digital formats expand access, foster new forms of dialogue, and influence how audiences engage with contemporary art and its markets. Panelists included Josh Baer (The Baer Faxt and NoReserve), Benjamin Godsill (Nota Bene), and Casey Lesser (Artsy), moderated by Tim Schneider (The Gray Market).
Presented as part of Untitled Art’s Special Projects, this panel brings together artists whose practices engage deeply with questions of landscape, ecology, and place. Through diverse material and conceptual approaches, each participant explores how environmental shifts—natural and human-made—inform contemporary artistic production and collective awareness. Panelists feature Cameron Harvey (Official Welcome), Cristina Molina (Other Plans Gallery), and Carlos Rolón (HEXTON Gallery), moderated by 2025 Guest Curator Allison Glenn.
Presented in partnership with Untitled Art and Eighth House, this panel explores the critical role of restorative residencies in sustaining and evolving the contemporary art ecosystem. At a time when artists face mounting economic, social, and emotional pressures, residencies that prioritize rest, reflection, and holistic care are more essential than ever. The conversation features Diana Eusebio (Artist and Eighth House Residency alumna), Danny Báez (Curator and Curatorial Board Member, Eighth House Residency), and Tessa Greene O’Brien (Surf Point artist alumna and Surf Point Board Member), moderated by Katharina McCarthy (Founder, Eighth House Residency).
Chief Curator, Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College), moderated by Lorie Mertes (Executive Director, Locust Projects).
This conversation examined how criticism, journalism, and editorial practices shape public discourse, influence collecting trends, and support artist visibility. Topics included the changing role of art critics in the digital age, the challenges of maintaining editorial independence, the impact of social media on art writing, and how diverse voices can strengthen the field. The discussion also considers how art writing can foster greater inclusivity and accessibility within the art world. This panel discussion was recorded at the 14th edition of Untitled Art, Miami Beach, and featured Annie Armstrong (Artnet News), Daniel Cassady (ARTnews), and Jenny Wu (ArtReview), moderated by rashid shabazz (Critical Minded).
The vibrant art talks series continues into its fourth year, as part of Untitled Art’s collaboration with Soho Beach House Miami. Panelists Carl Gambino (Art Collector), Reginald O’Neal (Artist), and Katia David Rosenthal (Gallerist, KDR) are joined by moderator Nicole Martinez (Deputy Director, Fountainhead), for a dynamic discussion on young collectors and collection building. Each offering a unique perspective on the topic, panelists will explore how connections among collectors, galleries, and artists influence collecting practices.
Recorded live on-site at Untitled Art, Houston 2025, this panel focuses on artist-run galleries, publishing platforms, and non-profits that seek out alternative models for organizing, education, and community engagement. Moderated by Patton Hindle, the conversation includes Adam Marnie, Kristin Calabrese, and Kirk Nelson.
Official Partner of Untitled Art, Houston 2025, UOVO: Art, Fashion, and Wine, presents a discussion examining how culture’s most cherished creations can be shielded from the unruly whims of nature’s impact.This conversation was moderated by Pamela Moore, featuring Soraya Alcalá, Michelle Dobbins, and Corina (Cory) Rogge.
In this panel discussion, enjoy a scholarly dialogue examining the evolving practices, themes, and cultural identities expressed through Asian diasporic art in Texas. Panelists will address intergenerational influences, regional specificity, and the broader sociopolitical contexts that shape artistic production in Houston and beyond. This conversation was moderated by Owen Duffy, featuring Manjari Sihare, Rajiv Menon of Rajiv Menon Contemporary, Yifan Jiang of Meliksetian | Briggs, and Anne Samat of MARC STRAUS at Untitled Art, Houston 2025.
Tune into this discussion recorded at Untitled Art, Houston 2025 about the deep and long-lasting cultural connections between Houston and Latin America as it relates to the contemporary art world. This conversation will be held in Spanish. This conversation was moderated by Untitled Art Executive Director Clara Andrade Pereira, in dialogue with Mari Carmen Ramírez, María Inés Sicardi, and Paola Creixell.
Live recorded at Untitled Art, Houston 2025, this panel explores Houston’s position as a leading cultural and culinary hub of the American South, examining the city’s dynamic contributions across the realms of gastronomy, music, film, and visual art. This conversation features chef Chris Shepherd, Bun B, and Khori Dastoor, moderated by Brandon Zech.
Recorded at the inaugural edition of Untitled Art, Houston 2025, this panel discussion will examine the historical trajectories, creative practices, and sociocultural impact of Black artists in Houston, considering their contributions within contexts of historical struggle, cultural resilience, and artistic innovation. This conversation was moderated by Ryan Dennis, in conversation with Dr. Anita Bateman, Sharon Fletcher, and Earlie Hudnall, Jr of PDNB Gallery, a participating gallery.
As part of our #UntitledOnTour series, our signature VIP Weekend in Houston, TX programming included a panel discussion moderated by Catherine Anspon (Executive Editor of PaperCity Magazine), exploring Houston’s contemporary art landscape and sharing insights on fostering growth, increasing visibility, and creating opportunities for artists and art institutions across the Bayou City and Texas more broadly. Panelists include Michael Slenske (Director of Untitled Art, Houston), Nate Freeman (Culture Correspondent at Vanity Fair), Betty Moody (Owner and Director of Moody Gallery), Jesus Alberto Flores (Founder and Director of Colector), and Aliyya Stude (SVP, Business Development at Sotheby's). This panel discussion was live recorded on March 21, 2025, at Park House, Houston.
Rajiv Menon Contemporary is proud to present I-POP, a panel exploring India’s massively rising influence in the world of art and fashion. In particular, the panel will explore how popular Indian aesthetics foster new conversations between “East” and “West.” While East Asia dominates the conversation on Asian pop art, Indian visuality, especially in textile and design, is informing a new wave of popular and folk-driven aesthetics. As India navigates its rise as a cultural superpower, its visual culture increasingly shapes global ways of seeing. This panel explores I-POP (Indian Popular Aesthetics) in all its manifestations, and hones in on how this is a cultural force in the art and fashion world. The panel will demonstrate why India is one of the most significant art and cultural centers in the world today, and bring this vital conversation to a new audience in Miami. This panel was moderated by Iva Dixit, featuring Rajiv Menon and Anamika Khanna, and was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach on December 5, 2024.
The dynamic fusion of art and real estate is transforming urban landscapes and redefining luxury living. No longer just eye candy, art is now a key player in real estate development—boosting property values and shaping the identity of entire communities. This panel brings together top minds from both fields to explore how art seamlessly blends with architecture, design, and branding in real estate. We’ll also dive into the cultural and financial ripple effects of art installations, from gentrification to skyrocketing property prices. After all, art and prime real estate share the same rarefied air—scarce, valuable, and coveted by savvy investors. Both serve as exclusive, inflation-proof assets that add diversity to portfolios while offering emotional and cultural returns. With high transaction costs and the potential for collateral-based financing, they remain power players in the wealth-building game.This panel discussion is moderated by Arushi Kapoor, featuring Mauricio Umansky and Jonathan Travis, and was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach on December 6, 2024.
Join Aperture and Untitled Art for a conversation between the artist and Silas Munro, founder of Polymode, to celebrate the release of Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s latest monograph, Dark Room A–Z (Aperture, 2024). In Dark Room A–Z, Paul Mpagi Sepuya reflects on the methodologies, strategies, and points of interest behind a single, expansive body of work at a pivotal moment in his career. This volume unpacks his Dark Room series (2016–21), offering a deep dive into the thick network of references and the interconnected community of artists and subjects that Sepuya has interwoven throughout the images. Dark Room A–Z serves as an iterative return and exhaustive manual to the strategies and generative ways of working that have informed Sepuya’s image-making over the past two decades.This panel discussion was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach on December 6, 2024.
In conjunction with the opening of Alien, curated by Yesiyu Zhao at David Castillo Gallery (December 3, 2024 – February 8, 2025), 2024 Untitled Art Guest Curator Kathy Huang moderates a discussion with curator Yesiyu Zhao and artists Asif Hoque and Ye Quin Zhu. The conversation will examine the conceptual framework and development of the exhibition, which features over 40 artists from the Asian diaspora. Alien investigates the multifaceted interpretations of the term "alien" and its intersections with cultural, social, and political narratives. The panel will also discuss the evolving roles of curators and artists, highlighting the challenges and opportunities in representing Asian diasporic perspectives and the growing trend of artists taking on curatorial roles.This panel discussion was recorded at Untitled Art, MIami Beach 2024 on December 6, 2024.
Join moderator Shyevin S'ng of Vin Gallery for an insightful panel discussion on the Resilience and Growth of the Southeast Asian Art Market, exploring key factors driving its recovery post-COVID-19. Panelists will discuss the impact of young collectors, the role of art fairs, and strategies for gaining international recognition. The conversation will also address challenges faced by artists and galleries, concluding with visions for the future of Southeast Asian art on the global stage. The panel featured Sundaram Tagore of Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Justin Lim presented by Richard Koh Fine Art, and Daniel Chong presented by s t a r c h. The panel discussion was recorded at Untitled Art, MIami Beach on December 7, 2024.
As digital art continues to expand its influence, the integration of AI is opening new avenues for artists to explore and comment on critical global issues. This panel brings together distinguished artists, curators, and thought leaders to examine how AI enables digital artists to create works that provoke thought and inspire change across social, political, and environmental contexts. Panelists will discuss digital art’s unique power to raise awareness and shape public opinion on pressing global concerns, while also exploring the ethical considerations artists face when using AI to engage with sensitive topics. By the end of the discussion, the talk aims to highlight the potential of AI-driven digital art to contribute to meaningful conversations and actionable solutions to today’s most urgent challenges.This panel discussion is moderated by Kate Vass of Kate Vass Galerie, and features Kevin Abosch, Sasha Stiles, Ivona Tau, and Adam Berninger of TENDER, and was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2024 on December 7, 2024.
This panel explores the evolving role of dual-cultural influences on contemporary artists and curators from East Asia, particularly those educated within a Western context. Many artists and curators emerging from the region today are shaped by a bi-cultural education and outlook, often having completed studies at institutions in the U.S. and Europe before returning to engage with their home art scenes. This experience fosters a dynamic perspective, blending East Asian heritage with Western methodologies, which informs their creative practices and curatorial approaches.Panelists will examine the impact of globalization and digital media—such as online publications, social platforms, and streaming content—that now enable East Asian artists and curators to access a wide spectrum of global art discourse beyond traditional educational avenues. This panel was moderated by Haoyang Wang of cub_ism_artspace, and features Yiwei Lu of Yiwei Gallery, Shihui Zhao of LATITUDE Gallery, and artist Jess Xiaoyi Han, and was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2024 on December 7, 2024.
Join the Miami Artist Census team in conversation as they delve into the history behind the census and how the project reflects Miami's artist community. The group will consider how data can be channeled to identify the needs of local artists, tell our stories, and visualize strategies for positive change. This panel is moderated by Heike Dempster, featuring misael soto, Harmony Honig, Carrie Seih, and Dr. Scotney Evans, and recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2024 on December 8, 2024.
Amidst recent shifts in public funding for the arts, alongside the growth of commercial galleries and museum expansions, this panel will explore the evolving role of art fairs in shaping the future of the arts in Houston, examining how these events serve as vital hubs for connecting local and international artists, galleries, and collectors while fostering a dynamic, innovative arts community. The panel, moderated by the Director for Untitled Art, Houston, Michael Slenske, features artist Reynier Leyva Novo, Director of Business Development and Art Advisory at The Fine Art Group Jessica Phifer, Nancy C. Allen Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Asia Society Texas Owen Duffy, and Co-Founder of Seven Sisters Houston Tom Raith. This panel discussion was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach, on December 3, 2024.
Through context-based creative practices, the artistic platform LA ESCUELA___ aims to address current social and ecological challenges from the perspectives of Latin American artists, educators, and communities. By fostering collaboration at the regional and international levels, it promotes translocal exchange, bridging experimental approaches rooted in the territories. This collaborative platform is nowexpanding its outreach to the BIPOC cultural ecosystem in the USA; connecting Indigenous peoples, black and brown diasporas, among other latinx communities with Latin America. This will strengthen hemispheric exchange among artists, researchers, curators, and educators working with socially engaged practices. Through shared learning experiences, editorial content, and collaborative art projects around public space, the platform aims to promote critical thinking and a broader understanding of the territories and their underrepresented narratives.This panel is moderated by Antonieta Landa and features Miguel Braceli, Carolyn Sickles, Sofía S. Reeser del Rio, and Iberia Pérez González, and was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach on December 4, 2024.
Listen to a panel discussion on the future of art criticism and arts journalism, moderated by Mary Louise Schumacher, Director of the Rabkin Foundation, an artist-endowed charitable foundation created in 1999 to preserve and share the work of Leo Rabkin and administer grants to art critics. Panelists include 2023 Rabkin Prize winner Max Durón, Senior Reporter at ARTNews, as well as past contributors to Untitled Edit, the fair’s online editorial platform intended to support established art critics and the next generation of voices, including freelance writers Julie Baumgardner and Annabel Keenan, as well as Arimeta Diop, Editorial Assistant at Vanity Fair. This panel was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach, on December 5, 2024.
Since Frieze’s arrival in Seoul in 2022, international interest in the South Korean art market has surged, pushing local commercial galleries to engage more actively on the global stage and spotlighting Korean artists abroad. This heightened attention has also led independent art spaces to reconsider their roles, prompting questions about how to remain experimental, community-focused, and true to their independent spirit amidst increasing commercialization. Curators, too, are reflecting on the purpose and ethics of curation within a profit-driven market, exploring ways to balance artistic vision with economic realities. This panel will examine the far-reaching effects of global interest in South Korea’s art scene on diverse players—including commercial galleries, alternative spaces, and curators—and discuss how these shifts might shape the future of the South Korean art landscape in global world. This panel is moderated by 2024 Guest Curator Jungmin Cho and features Suyoung Lee, Inseon Kim, and Jeppe Ugelvig, and recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach on December 4, 2024.
With generous support from Private Client Select, SRI Fine Art Services, and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, ArtTable presents an engaging discussion of the roles of steward and patron that the collector assumes upon purchasing a work of art. This second program in ArtTable’s Art Law Series, appropriate for new and seasoned collectors alike, covers multiple dimensions of stewardship each collector must consider to ensure the long-term integrity and care of works of art. Meticulous planning for insurance, shipping, and protection from natural disasters is paramount to maintaining the physical safety of the collection, but the collector’s actions following the sale—ascertaining holding periods, loaning works to museums, and exploring the resale market—must also be conducted diligently, with the sustainability of the artist’s career in mind. This panel brings together experts from the insurance, shipping, legal, and curatorial fields to cover collectors' contractual, financial, and ethical responsibilities to the artists they work with, setting up all participants for success.This panel is moderated by Samantha Anderson and features Melissa Osterwind, Amani Lewis, Shamim M. Momin, and Barbara Chamberlain, and was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach on December 4, 2024.
Join leading museum professionals as they discuss the evolving role of museums in promoting inclusivity and diversity within their spaces and programs. Moderated by Carlie Porterfield, Associate Editor at The Art Newspaper, the conversation will explore real-world initiatives and challenges facing cultural institutions today as they work to broaden representation and foster engagement across multiple communities and publics.This panel discussion features Patrick Charpenel, Deidré Guevara, Nicole Dowd, and María Elena Ortiz, and was recorded at Untitled Art, Miami Beach on December 5, 2024.
As Untitled Art looks ahead to Houston, we revisit our VIP weekend programming in Austin, TX, earlier this season in collaboration with Soho House and Big Medium. The weekend kicked off with a panel discussion about the growth of the arts in Texas with the Director for Untitled Art, Houston, Michael Slenske, alongside Austin-based artist RF. Alvarez, Art Advisor Adam Green, Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin Alex Klein, and Co-Founders of Martha's, Ricky Morales and Meredith Williams. Touching upon Texan identity, this panel explores the growth of its cities and burgeoning art scene.
Kicking off our fall programming, Untitled Art’s collaboration with Soho Beach House Miami’s Art Club continues. This podcast revolves around young collectors and collection building, featuring Miami-based patrons and collectors Jack Benmeleh and Daphna Bentata, as well as art advisor and historian Valentina Tintori. Moderated by Salomé Gómez-Upegi, the panel delves into the 'joy' collecting brings and the symbiotic relationship cultivated between local artists and collectors to come together to support the art ecosystem."It's really taking care of what the artist is doing, and how much it inspires you - that is where the investment is." says Daphna Bentata."Every time there's an opening, go to the gallery. Go to the gallery director. Find out about the artist. The artist is going to always be there at the opening - meet them, talk to them. They have studios here. Send them a DM, make an introduction, go to their studios, start learning about them." remarked Jack Benmeleh on engaging with the local artist community as part of the process of one's collection building.The panel was recorded live on-site at Soho Beach House on September 25th, 2024.
GeoVanna Gonzalez, multidisciplinary artistLeilani Lynch, MCA Denver Associate CuratorModerated by Komal Kehar, architect/designer, owner of Common ThingsTo be seen and occupy space can be a radical act of political resistance. Drawing inspiration from the thought-provoking performance installation PLAY, LAY, AYE: ACT 6 by GeoVanna Gonzalez, the conversation “Taking up Space” explores the profound implications of movement as a powerful form of engagement. In this discussion, multidisciplinary artist Gonzalez, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Associate Curator Leilani Lynch, and architect/designer Komal Kehar will examine the intricate dynamics of both private and public spaces, scrutinizing them through the nuanced perspectives of gender, race, status, or other marginalized dimensions. The conversation is poised to dissect the codified norms governing accessibility, delving into the implications of these norms and their impact on the perception and utilization of space.Presented by Commissioner, in partnership with Chief.
Three galleries exhibiting at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2023 from Southern Africa: Ebony/Curated; Southern Guild and Kalashnikovv Gallery, come together to discuss the role of the gallery and the curator- in an evolving cultural landscape that champions the consumption of the image in what is globally understood as the digital age.These established institutions will reflect on their respective individual presentations for this year’s edition of Untitled Art in relation to the intricate overlap between art, audience, internet, and the nuance of ‘curating for the digital age’.The normalised omnipresence of our devices has rapidly brought about change in the way we understand, communicate and consume physical art. The contemporary gallery space is not immune to the impact of these unprecedented advancements, and the complex ‘technological gaze’ that accompanies them.Facilitating a discussion surrounding the prevailing power, and responsibility, of the gallery to support artists in creating a presence that is not only locally relevant, but globally significant- each gallery has their own interpretation of the theme, creating a nuanced and interesting overarching conversation.
The panel will present their art gallery journeys vis-à-vis working in the digital age, and how each has developed concepts, overcome challenges, and shaped innovative pathways to entrepreneurial growth. The panel will discuss how each has measured success and/or how they advantage online tools to develop decision making.
This panel features women with diverse backgrounds, with almost 100 years of collective experience in the art gallery/ art museum field, each with significant understanding of the Caribbean mid-Atlantic region and its diasporas. As a result, the panel will develop audience understanding of an under-represented region in the art world that boasts significant art talent.
In an industry that can seem daunting to try to navigate on your own, Hannah Gottlieb-Graham, Jordan Huelskamp, Charlie Jarvis, and Maria Vogel have each forged their own, unique paths independent of any preexisting entity. Recognized mavericks in their respective lanes, each speaker will share insight from their years navigating the complexities of the art world and how they brought their singular visions to life.
This year’s curatorial theme, “Gender Equality in the Arts,” and the topic of “Making and Claiming Space” is an opportunity to construct a diverse group of panelists who are often unheard and unseen in the art world. While we are seeing an uptick in artists of color, queer artists and women; what about the underrepresented individuals behind the scenes? What does diversity look like as far as gallery owners, gallery directors, curators, and institutional leaders? We want to know more about the lens in which they are all operating from, how their unique points of view will impact the contemporary landscape, and what we can expect from them in addition to more.
Join us for a conversation organized and moderated by 2023 Exhibitor, Jonathan Carver Moore, founder and director of his eponymous gallery in San Francisco with panelists: Natasha Becker, curator for the Arts of Africa at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Storm Anthony Griffith, San Francisco-based collector, investor, entrepreneur and technologist specializing in collecting emerging artists with a focus on Bay Area art; Kacy Jung, exhibiting photo-based mixed-media sculptor; and Mari Robles, an arts educator, leader and organizer guided by a mission to connect people to quality arts education.
A conversation between Curator, Rachel Delphia and Artist, Sharif Bey to discuss his work since his major 2021 solo exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art, in which the artist exhibited a survey of his studio practice alongside pieces created onsite in response to the museum’s collection.This conversation will focus specifically on the artist’s newest series, the Guardians, to consider how Bey uses sculpture as autoethnography, exploring individual and collective identity through the recontextualization of forms that have historically been used to represent status or power.The Guardians series furthers Bey’s enduring exploration of Nkisi nkondi figures, expressing questions of legacy, ornamentation, and matriarchal power. Commenting on these works, Curator Rachel Delphia writes, “It is no surprise that Bey’s Guardians are women. Each sculpture carries literal and figurative baggage, in their attributes and in the symbolic weight that generations of African American mothers bear.” This conversation will also delve into the importance of relationships shared between artists and curators extending beyond specific institutional projects, and the ways these dialogues can enrich and expand an artist’s studio practice.
Presented in association with Her Clique, and moderated by writer Dan Duray, this panel will feature a conversation between LaKela Brown, a trailblazing artist, and her dynamic gallerist Ellie Rines. Together they will share their tactics for navigating the masculine power structures of the art world, and their theories for why these still exist in 2023.
Underscoring this year’s curatorial focus, Curating in the Digital Age, we are thrilled to welcome longstanding exhibitor, Steven Sacks, owner and director of the New York-based gallery, bitforms, in conversation with exhibiting artist, Manfred Mohr. Mohr utilizes algorithms to engage rational aesthetics, inviting logic to produce visual outcomes. Not only exhibiting within the booth, the artist and bitforms will present the Special Project of his Early Plotter Drawings, highlighting a selection of Mohr’s earliest computer-generated plotter drawings.
Join Jeffrey Meris, Alyssa Klauer, and Marissa Del Toro for a dynamic dialogue as they share their creative journeys since completing their respective NXTHVN Fellowships in 2021 and 2022. Learn about their post-fellowship experiences and how they navigate the vibrant art ecosystem, as well as their ever-evolving expressions of artistic liberation.
Hosted by For Freedoms on the role of artists in shaping society and politics.Moderated by Michelle Woo in conversation with multidisciplinary artist Autumn Breon, artist and curator Jesse Krimes, and curator Jasmine Wahi. This panel was generously supported plancpills.org.
Conducted in Spanish:Siguiendo con la misión curatorial de Untitled Art de desarrollar programación que apoye la inclusividad, diversidad y accesibilidad dentro del ecosistema artístico, nos complace anunciar que este año presentaremos dos paneles que se llevarán a cabo en español.Propuesto por Liz Caballero, fundadora y directora de Sketch, este panel invita a galerías participantes con sede en Colombia a conversar sobre la escena del arte contemporáneo del país y sus programas artísticos. Además, la charla pondrá el foco en la tarea de difusión e internacionalización que lleva a cabo la asociación de galerías colombiana AGAC.Los panelistas invitados son Carlos Hurtado (de Nueveochenta, participando bajo el colectivo NOPLACE); Steven Guberek (de SGR Galería); Andrés Moreno Hoffmann (de Casa Hoffman); y Liz Caballero (de SKETCH). El panel es moderado por Henrique Faria, fundador y director de la galería Henrique Faria con sede en la ciudad de Nueva York, y con un programa que se destaca desde sus inicios por el desarrollo de la escena latinoamericana y su inclusión en el panorama del arte internacional.
In this conversation, Rachael Rakes, artistic director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, and Kathleen Ditzig, Curator at the National Gallery Singapore, will discuss alter-spatial histories and provide critical perspectives on the history of Western-style mapping. The discussion stems from the exhibition and publication This Too, is a Map produced on the occasion of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale and co-published by [NAME] Publications and the Seoul Museum of Art. The Biennale and the publication were developed to imagine the global aesthetics of the non-territorial, focusing on alternative concepts of relating that live outside of borders and looks to the necessity of abstractions and hidden and deliberately obscured languages to communicate shared existence.
Recent years have brought about rapid changes to the way art is shown, shared and sold. What are some of these new models that are disrupting the traditional dynamics, and how can young collectors navigate these new spaces? Moderated by Klaudia Ofwona Draber in conversation with Amanda Uribe, Founder, LatchKey Gallery and Iliya Fridman, Founder, Fridman Gallery.
While the future of NFTs is up for debate, their technological advances are undeniable. What are the practical applications and implications of this technology on the market for physical works of art? Moderated by Brendan Burns in conversation with Bernadine Wieder – CEO, Arcual; Marc Billings – Founder/ CEO, Blackdove; and Whitney Hart – former CMO, Tezos.
The market for female artists has been dramatically changing in recent years. What does this look like now, and where is it headed? Moderated by Ann-Marie Richard in conversation with Ágnes Berecz, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Faculty, MA Contemporary Art; Jenna Ferrey, Owner/Director, Trotter&Sholer; and Madison Estey of Cheim & Reid Gallery.
Join us for a conversation with first-time Exhibitors: Emmelie Koster, founder and co-director of No Man’s Art Gallery (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Gisela Guieros, founder of her eponymous space Gisela Projects (Brooklyn, NY); and Laura González Palacios, founder of Chiquita Room (Barcelona, Spain) for a discussion diving into their program initiatives that go beyond the physical space.Gisela Projects (founded in 2021, New York, NY) has participated in art fairs in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Miami and has organized pop-ups in New York, London and in important galleries such as Galeria Estação and Pablo’s Birthday. Their first project was done in collaboration with the NY Summerfest, where videos by their artists were projected onto the sides of the Brooklyn Bridge. Based in Barcelona, Spain, Chiquita Room works simultaneously as a gallery, a residence for artists, an artist book publisher, and a soft collecting membership. Dedicated to accompanying artists along their projects, Chiquita Room aims to reflect relevant issues to society through a critical, innovative, and collective approach while exploring the poetics of artistic expression from the interaction between art and other disciplines. Over the past decade, No Man's Art Gallery has actively promoted emerging artists from diverse backgrounds through innovative channels, particularly its international pop-up galleries. Yearly, the gallery team, under the leadership of Emellie Koster and Lih-Lan Wong, travels to a new destination to set up a temporary gallery space. Previously, the pop-up gallery has opened in Mexico City, Tehran, Cape Town, Shanghai, Mumbai and various European cities.
Artists Hanna Ali, Leo Castaneda, Lee Pivnik and James Allister Sprang discuss intersections of their practices concerning technology, architecture, virtual space, archiving, Diaspora storytelling, and positioning towards speculative futurism. Moderated by Heike Dempster, Director of Engagement and Outreach at YoungArts.
Conducted in Spanish:Siguiendo con la misión curatorial de Untitled Art de desarrollar programación que apoye la inclusividad, diversidad y accesibilidad dentro del ecosistema artístico, nos complace anunciar que este año presentaremos dos paneles que se llevarán a cabo en español.Moderado por Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator del Whitney Museum of American Art de Nueva York y embajadora de la feria formando parte de nuestro Ambassadors Committee, esta conversación destaca a galerías de Caribe y América Latina participantes en el sector emergente de la feria “Nest”. Las galerías participantes son: Casa Quién (Santo Domingo, República Dominicana), Daniela Elbahara (Ciudad de México, México), El Kilómetro (San Juan, Puerto Rico), y VIGIL GONZALES (Buenos Aires, Argentina/Cusco, Perú y Santo Domingo, República Dominicana).
A conversation discussing artists and art workers who pursue a career in a so-called fly over state such as Oklahoma. Although many art world institutions tend to be conservative, the majority of the art world itself tends to lean liberal. How do liberal artists and art workers in a socially conservative so-called fly over state such as Oklahoma attract support, capture the attention, and thrive in their local, regional, national, and international art communities while simultaneously facing rejection and pushback? Antonio Andrews will open with the hip-hop rap performance, "Everyday," and the panel will conclude with a spoken word performance by Kalup Linzy titled "Equality Beam," meditating on equality, assurance, and confidence in a space where the odds seem stacked against you.Moderator: Kalup Linzy, Tulsa Artist Fellow and founder and director of Queen Rose Art HousePanelists: Carolyn Sickles, Executive Director of Tulsa Artist Fellowship; Kate Green, Ph.D., Chief Curator & Nancy E. Meinig Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Philbrook Museum of Art; Trueson Daugherty, Tulsa-based artist; Antonio Andrews, Tulsa-based artist and founder of No Parking Studios; and Ashanti Chaplin, Tulsa based cultural producer and multiform conceptual artist.
Presented as a cornerstone of the 12th edition’s curatorial focus, Gender Equality in the Arts, Untitled Art is proud to host a panel discussion with leading industry experts who are driving this conversation forward: Julia Halperin, cofounder of the Burns Halperin Report - an annual report investigating the representation of Black American artists, female-identifying artists, and Black female-identifying artists since 2018 which is now the largest database of its kind; and Casey Lesser, Director of Content at Artsy and co-author of the 2023 Women Artists Market Report – a series of three articles delving into the current state of the market for women artists via data gathered data from independent research, auction results from the Artsy auctions database, and other Artsy data. The panel is moderated by Allison Thorpe, Vice President of Sutton.
Join Curator Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas and Artistic Director Neville Wakefield in conversation with Zoe Lukov as they discuss the concepts and pressing socio-cultural concerns that frame Desert X 2025, the fifth edition of the renowned international contemporary art biennial in the Coachella Valley, California. Get to know the curators and their conceptual process as they reflect on previous projects, the current conditions of our desert environments, the state of gender equality, and the pervasive use of technology as connected to artists’ creative practices and our everyday lives.
Vortic is the 2023 Digital Partner, and Prize Partner, of Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2023. Expanding on our partnership, we are delighted to welcome the digital exhibition platform’s founder, Oliver Miro, in conversation with Untitled Art Ambassador and Dallas-based art advisor Adam Green. This discussion aims to shed light on new technologies and tools for both collecting and exhibiting art with these leading experts. Adam Green has over 15 years of experience in the art industry working with new and experienced collectors on contemporary art acquisitions and strategies. In conversation with Oliver Miro, we look forward to learning more about Vortic’s commitment to using new technologies to forge novel and accessible methods of engaging galleries and collectors alike.
The vibrant art talks series continues into its second year, as part of Untitled Art’s collaboration with Soho House Miami Beach’s Art Club. This September features a conversation revolving around one of Untitled Art’s curatorial focuses this year, “Curating in the Digital Age,” featuring a powerhouse panel of Miami-based experts welcoming: Pablo Rodríguez-Fraile, founder of the RFC Art Collection; Karen Grimson, Curator of the Craig Robins Collection in the Miami Design District; and Stephanie Seidel, Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). The discussion is moderated by Ana Clara Silva, Soho House’s Art Club Director.
A lively panel discussion highlighting exhibiting artists at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022. Hosted and moderated by Omar López Chahoud, Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, in conversation with Piluca Baquero representing The Estate of Val del Omar (Special Project presented by Max Estrella), and participating artist Margarita Cabrera (presented by Jane Lombard Gallery).About Piluca BaqueroPiluca Baquero started producing films at 19. Her first feature film, Ojala Val del Omar, was presented at the Venice Film festival. Since then, she has produced more than twenty fiction films and documentaries, such as Lena by Gonzalo de Tapia, Lo que sé de Lola by Javier Rebollo or El coche de pedales, by Ramón Barea. In 2017 she made her directional debut with animation short film El silencio roto, which premiered in SEMINCI. From 1997, Piluca manages and directs Archivo Val del Omar, an archive of José Val del Omar’s work with the purpose of its promotion, conservation and recovery, hand by hand with Gonzalo Sáenz de Buruaga, president of the institution. Val del Omar’s work is kept in the Museo Nacional e Arte Reina Sofía, where it is permanently shown to the public.About Margarita CabreraMargarita Cabrera received an MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY. Cabrera is an assistant professor at the Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Some of her most recent exhibitions include a solo show entitled Margarita Cabrera: What Art Can Do” at the Art League Houston, Houston, TX. Cabrera’s work was featured in the exhibit State of Mind: Art and American Democracy at the Moody Center, Rice University. Along with 80 artists in protest of Immigrant Incarceration in Nationwide skywriting campaign Cabrera participated in: In Plain Sight. At the Wellin Art Museum, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Cabrera presented Margarita Cabrera: Space in Between; and PERILOUS BODIES, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY. In New Orleans Margarita Cabrera presented by the Center of Southern Craft and Design at the Ogden Art Museum, as well as “The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp” at the New Orleans “Prospect 4”. Cabrera also was featured in “The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility” at the Craft & Folk Art Museum and SITE LINES: much wider than a line in Santa Fe, NM. About Omar López ChahoudOmar López-Chahoud has been the Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art since its founding in 2012. As an independent curator, López-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he curated the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. López-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. López-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Art in London.
A conversation with R.I.C.O.R.O.B.O, presented by Terremoto.How is Latinamerican history and identity archived, stored and enunciated? Terremoto engages in conversation with R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. (The Research Institute On Cannibal Opportunism & Repository Of Obsessive Bobo-lutionary Obsolescence) to explore notions of decommodification of Latinamerican identity, the dissemination of transgressive knowledge exchange and cross-border research. This podcast is presented by Terremoto, and moderated by Terremoto’s Executive Director and curator Helena Lugo.ABOUT R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. (RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON CANNIBAL OPPORTUNISM REPOSITORY OF OBSESSIVE BOBO-LUTIONARY OBSOLESCENCE)R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. is a cultural production bureau¹ specialized in scratching, remixing and hacking the corporate and institutional consumption of Latin(x)(o)(a)(a)(+)² narratives in the Americas³. Roleplaying with commercial and academic business models, R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O harvest a counter-manipulation agenda through transgressive knowledge exchange⁴, site-specific interventions and cross-border research.A commercial agency that serves as an intermediary especially for exchanging information or coordinating activities. Latin(x)(o)(a)(a)(+): an expansive neologism to acknowledge the fragmented and diverse historical frameworks of individuals that identify within the ethnic construct of latinidad. The countries of North and South America, considered together.Transgressive teaching by Bell HooksR.I.C.O. R.O.B.O is conformed by Adrian Edgard Rivera, Daniel Arturo Almeida, Itzel Basualdo, Rodrigo Carazas Portal and Olenka Macassi.ABOUT TERREMOTOBased in Mexico City since 2013, Terremoto is the leading bilingual independent media for contemporary arts in the Americas. With an extensive network of collaborators and a critical focus on decolonial, queer and antipatriarchal practices, Terremoto will pause its print magazine and refocus its gaze on digital content and an upcoming program of curatorial and artistic residencies connecting the Americas.
Angela Fraleigh and Maritza Lacayo will discuss reproductive Justice, art history and witchcraft in the context of Fraleigh's monumental painting installation The Raving Ones, on view as a special project at the Untitled Art Fair. Fraleigh’s lush and layered paintings harness the magic of making the invisible, visible. Illuminating erased or forgotten female figures, her paintings unsettle familiar narratives to help shift perspectives and upend contemporary power dynamics. Traversing topics from the medieval witch-hunts and the rise of capitalism to Reagan era politics and the devastating overturning of Roe V. Wade, Lacayo and Fraleigh will locate some of the historical cultural markers that have led to the subjugation of women and the current political attack on bodily autonomy while offering practical political action and a little practical magic to boot.Angela Fraleigh earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Selected solo exhibitions include Hirschl and Adler Modern and PPOW Gallery in New York, Inman Gallery in Houston, TX and Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM. Her work can be found in museum collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and she has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Brooklyn, NY, The CORE program in Houston, TX and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE among others. Fraleigh has created site-specific solo projects for the Edward Hopper House Museum, the Vanderbilt Mansion Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Her work is included in “Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value & Worth” at the Weatherspoon Art museum; traveling to The Hood Art Museum and Hunter Art Museum. She currently lives and works in Allentown, PA, where she is Full Professor at Moravian University.Maritza Lacayo is Assistant Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). At PAMM she has curated numerous exhibition projects, including: The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM’s Collection, Marco Brambilla: Heaven’s Gate, George Segal: Abraham’s Farewell to Ishmael, Polyphonic: Celebrating PAMM’s Fund for African American Art, Jedd Novatt: Monotypes and More, among others. Lacayo has various exhibition projects forthcoming, including Jason Seife: Coming to Fruition, and monographic exhibitions featuring Calida Garcia Rawles and José Parlá. Lacayo has organized traveling exhibitions on behalf of PAMM, including Marisol and Warhol Take New York, Leandro Erlich: Liminal, and Joan Didion: What She Means (forthcoming)—all co-organized with PAMM’s Director, Franklin Sirmans. Lacayo regularly works with the YoungArts Foundation as a Master Teacher, also curating both the Regional and National exhibitions in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Lacayo frequently contributes writing to arts platforms and exhibition catalogues including monographs for artists Tomokazu Matsuyama, Richard Dupont, Carlos Estévez, and Vaughn Spann. She has managed the production of several publications and exhibition catalogues for PAMM including Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger, On the Horizon: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Ebony G. Patterson…while the dew is still on the roses…, The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art, and Beatriz González: A Retrospective (Named one of The New York Times’s Best Art Books of 2019). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the American University of Paris and a Master of Letters in Modern and Contemporary Art and Art World Practice from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
With speakers Benton C. Bainbridge and James McGirk, co-founders of Lonely ROCKS, and curator Ana María Caballero. Moderated by Fanny Lakoubay.Lonely ROCKS decentralizes the process of curating fine art, reconsidering the self-portrait via emergent Web3 systems. How do digital artists portray themselves in the context of selfie and PFP culture? Do contemporary media artists echo early video artists, who often used themselves as readymade subject matter in the studio? What are the new forms of storytelling emerging from Web3 native communities? Do Web3 poets and writers represent an evolution of, or a break from their traditions? What is the tension between creating art to permanently inscribe on the blockchain and the promotion of such artworks via the social media-dependent Web3 communities? Can crypto art exist independently of Web2?About James McGirk:James McGirk is the co-founder of Lonely.ROCKS and the author of THE PERFECT SWING, A GRAND THEORY OF EVERYTHING and AMERICAN OUTLAWS. He holds a BA and an MFA from Columbia University.About Benton C. Bainbridge:An ethereal figure in decentralized art since 2014, Bainbridge co-founded MovingPictures.Gallery. In 2015, he worked with ConsenSys to develop on-chain provenance. Best known for two world tours as VJ with Beastie Boys.About Fanny Lakoubay:"I am a French-born, New York-based digital art advisor and curator with 14 years of experience in art, technology and finance. With my team at LAL ART Advisory, I support institutional, corporate, and private clients, who want to enter or better navigate the NFT space. I am also involved in many NFT community projects, such as The Blockchain Art Directory (BAD 2.0), We Are Museums, GreenNFT and more. Prior to this, I took part in some of the pioneering NFT projects (MoCDA, New Art Academy, CADAF, Editional App, Snark.art) and worked with larger organizations (RadicalxChange Foundation, Christie’s Auction House, Artnet, Societe Generale Bank)."About Ana María Caballero:Ana Maria Caballero is a first-generation Colombian-American poet and artist. Her work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil off romanticized motherhood and questioning notions that package women’s sacrifice as a virtue. She is the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, and a Sevens Foundation Grant. Her work has been widely published and exhibited internationally, most recently at Gazelli Art House in London and at L’Avant Gallerie in Paris. She has two books forthcoming in 2023, both written in the hours before the world wakes up. Much of what she writes in the dark can be read at anamariacaballero.com. Believing that poems are works of art, she co-founded digital poetry gallery theVERSEverse.com.
Presented by Library Street Collective.Alongside Jason REVOK’s current exhibition at MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) (November 5, 2022 - March 25, 2023), this Untitled Art podcast features a conversation between the artist and independent curator Pedro Alonzo, who is currently the Adjunct Curator at Dallas Contemporary. The conversation addresses the notion of automation in industry and how factory-based or hard labor is experienced across the United States, suggesting that mechanization informs artistic practice. Considering the relationship between humans and technology, REVOK has created a unique series of instruments that act as an extension of his body, utilizing these apparatuses and complex tools in concert with his hands to conceive his distinctive compositions. REVOK and Alonzo call the contemporary value system of traditional paintings into question as REVOK creates a new frontier on how an artist might practice in the age of machines.Jason REVOK: b. 1977, Riverside, CA, lives and works in Detroit, MI.Entirely self-taught, Jason REVOK is known for pushing creative boundaries that began in the street. Although his story begins with graffiti, the artist has spent the last decade focusing on his studio practice and the evolution of process and concept. Refusing to be limited by his early recognition, REVOK allows only certain elements from graffiti culture to transition to his contemporary work — modest materials and industrial tools, ingenuity, his name — but his proclivity towards minimalism and post-painterly abstraction has become the driving force behind his practice. Examining the question of authorship from start to finish, REVOK has developed systematic yet imperfect tools to carry out his vision and has created a number of unmistakable bodies of work. His bold, balanced geometry is heightened by the personal and imperfect slight of the human hand. REVOK has a solo exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles as well as the Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art; in galleries and special projects in New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, and Dubai; and is in important private collections worldwide. Pedro AlonzoPedro is an independent curator and art advisor who specializes in producing exhibitions that transcend the boundaries of museum walls. He has worked extensively with a variety of organizations to develop complex public art projects and helped build several notable collections of contemporary art. Pedro is currently an adjunct curator at Dallas Contemporary, and was formerly an adjunct curator at the ICA, Boston.
Presented by Laney Contemporary.Join us for a conversation with Atlanta-based sculptor Curtis Patterson (b., Shreveport, LA, 1944) and Aaron Levi Garvey, the inaugural Janet L. Nolan Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. The talk will touch on Patterson's legendary impact as a professor—including on painters Radcliffe Bailey, Fahamu Pecou, and illustrator Thomas Blackshear—and the development of his artistic philosophies and influences since the mid-1970s. The discussion will also highlight Patterson's numerous public sculptures, including those in Atlanta, Dallas, Columbus, Shreveport, and St. Paul, and invite his thoughts on historic and contemporary monuments. Finally, as an important platform of visibility, this program will position Patterson in the pantheon of black sculptors including Richard Hunt, Melvin Edwards, and Martin Puryear, and serve as an introduction to his prolific studio practice highlighting recent sculptural series which have captured the attention of museums, collectors, and a new generation of artists for whom he is a formidable example of professional tenacity and boundless creativity.Curtis Patterson: Born in Shreveport, LA, Curtis Patterson’s upbringing fostered a deep affinity for working with his hands and instilled a strong sense of discipline, balance, and spirituality. Patterson earned his BA in Art Education from Grambling State University, an HBCU listed on the African American Heritage Trail, and his MFA from Georgia State University and was the first African American to receive an MFA in Sculpture from GSU in 1976. His practice has moved from painting, wood, and ceramics to cast iron and large-scale, bronze and fabricated corten steel sculpture. Patterson was a faculty member at The Atlanta College of Art from 1976 to 2007. His work entered the realm of large-scale, public sculpture with Cometh the Sun commissioned by the City of Atlanta’s Bureau of Cultural Affairs in 1977. Since, Patterson has been commissioned for permanent public installations in prominent cities throughout the United States. His recent solo exhibition, A Notable Journey, at Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA, was pivotal to bringing Patterson's sculpture to a broader audience. His work is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA, on view through January 8, 2023.Aaron Levi Garvey is a Jewish-American curator working in contemporary arts and culture and is the inaugural Janet L. Nolan Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University. Recent exhibitions and projects include: The Hudson Eye a 10-day and 27-venue arts and humanities focused program in Hudson, New York, which has featured the work and performances of notable artists such as David Hammons, Allora and Calzadilla, Terence Koh, Marina Abramović, Shikeith, Rachel Libeskind, Jeffrey Gibson, Jonah Bokaer and Emily Ritz; the co-founding and directing of Long Road Projects Foundation an organization which focuses on supporting artists with residency, edition publishing and exhibition opportunities; Flashing the Leather at Alabama Contemporary in Mobile, Alabama; Ephemera Obscura at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans and Manon Bellet's MEMO and Shikeith’s notes towards becoming a spill, both at Atlanta Contemporary, and Invisible Thread at The Baker Museum – Artist Naples.
Moderated by Brandi Redick, Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Miami Beach, in conversation with artists involved in the City's No Vacancy initiative where artists from throughout the region are invited to create site-specific work in hotels throughout the area: Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares, Brookhart Jonquil, and Edouard Duval Carrie.About Antonia Wright and Ruben MillaresOver the past ten years, Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares have developed an extensive and experimental body of work. Through a multidisciplinary practice of video, performance, sculpture, sound, and light, Wright Millares’ work physically embodies the mechanics of power dynamics to challenge the absurdity of the hegemonic world order. Their projects are uniquely informed by Wright’s background in poetry and Millares’ foundation in music. Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares are Cuban-American artists born in Miami, FL.About Brookhart JonquilBrookhart Jonquil was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1984. He lives and works in Miami. Jonquil’s projects have been commissioned by the Bass Museum of Art, the De la Cruz Collection, MoCA Tucson, Vizcaya Museum, and the Cornell Art Museum. Jonquil received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, where he was awarded a graduate fellowship. He earned both a BFA in studio art and a BA in art history from the University of Arizona.About Edouard Duval CarrieBorn in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Edouard Duval-Carrié fled François Duvalier’s regime with his family to reside in Puerto Rico, New York, Montreal and Paris before settling in Miami Beach. Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College, Montréal in 1978. He later attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1988 to 1989. He resided in France for many years and currently lives in Miami Beach.About Brandi ReddickBrand Reddick is a recognized public art curator and arts administrator. With over 20 years of experience in the field, she has developed nationally recognized programs and launched policy-setting initiatives that have substantially increased funding and support for arts and culture throughout the municipalities for which she has served. Ms. Reddick is currently the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Miami Beach, a position she has held since 2016. Prior to her time at the City of Miami Beach, Ms. Reddick served for 13 years as the Curator for Art in Public Places in the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.
Presented by Auttrianna Projects and The55Project.With speakers Yelaine Rodriguez and Rafael Rg, moderated by Auttrianna Ward. Auttrianna Ward is an independent curator, publisher, multilingual writer, cultural producer and co-founder of Mare Projects. Born and raised in San Francisco, Ward has lived in New York City Chicago and Salvador, Brazil. She is currently based between London and Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2020 MFA Curatorial Practice graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She received her BA in History from Manhattanville College in 2011. Ward is the founder of Mare Residency and now Auttrianna Projects, a multidisciplinary art firm that supports Latin American, African and Asian artistic production through publications, grants, residencies and special projects. Through MARE Projects, she also recently published The Guard, a publication featuring prose and poetry engaging themes around the value of the arts. Rafael RG (1986) lives and works between Guarulhos and São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil. RG is a visual artist and writer. His practice focuses on sexual and affective relationships and their political implications as well as issues of racial identity. Working with institutional and personal archives, he presents his research through workshops, installations, performative texts, publications and objects. The materials he works with are often closely associated with narratives that involve himself or an alter ego in some way and the resulting projects that are close to or resemble fiction. He received, among other awards, the 1st Foco ArtRio Award, the Honor Award for Art and Heritage Merit/IPHAN, Centro cultural São Paulo Acquisition Award, Iberê Camargo Scholarship for residency at Künstlerhaus Bremen (Germany), Pampulha Scholarship for Residency at Arte da Pampulha (MG). Among his current residences, Gasworks in London (2018), Black Rock Senegal in Dakar (2019), Triangle France - Asterides in Marseile (2020), YBYTU (2021), and FAAP Artist Residency (2022), both in São Paulo. Yelaine Rodriguez (b.1990) is an Afro-DominicanYork artistic scholar, curator, and writer. Rodriguez conceptualizes fiber art, sculptures, and site-specific installations drawing connections between Black cultures in the Caribbean & the United States. She received her BFA in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design | The New School (2013) & her MA in Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Museum Studies from New York University (2021). She is currently an Adjunct Instructor at Parsons Textile (MFA) & NYU Department of Photography & Imaging (DPI). Rodriguez has exhibited in ESTAMOS BIEN: LA TRIENAL 20/21, El Museo del Barrio's (NY) first national large-scale survey of Latinx contemporary art, FotoFocus Biennial, Photoville, Mexic-Arte Museum, American Museum of Natural History, & Wave Hill in the United States, El Centro Cultural de España & Centro León Biennial XXVII in the Dominican Republic, SurGallery & Critical Distance Centre for Curators in Canada, Wereldmuseum in The Netherlands, & La Escocesa in Barcelona, Spain. Rodriguez's works appeared on CNN, Artsy, EnFoco, Hyperallergic, Vogue, Aperture, and Elle Magazine. Her writing has appeared in ARTnews and academic journals like Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture. 2022 programming by Auttrianna Projects is sponsored by: Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), The55project, The Last Resort Artist Retreat, and Kalpa Art Advisory.
Join artist Devan Shimoyama in a timely conversation with Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, Omar López Chahoud. The talk will cover Shimoyama’s current series, "The Tarot," paintings from which will be on view at De Buck Gallery. In Devan Shimoyama’s Tarot series, the artist takes inspiration from the centuries-old divination practice of card reading. For Shimoyama, the Tarot represents how we look to mystical practices to help sustain ourselves through difficult times.About Devan ShimoyamaDevan Shimoyama is a Philadelphia-born visual artist whose works investigate the politics of queer culture using the male form. Inspired by mythology and allegory, Shimoyama depicts the Black queer male body as something that is both desirable and desirous while contemplating the relationship between celebration and silence in queer culture. His use of lustrous materials such as costume jewelry, glitter, rhinestones, and sequins masterly captures the beauty and alienation of these forms by defying and questioning Black masculinity. Shimoyama was born in 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Penn State University in 2011 with a BFA in Drawing/Painting. He received his MFA from Yale University School of Art in Painting/Printmaking in 2014. While there, in 2013, he was awarded the Al Held Fellowship. Devan Shimoyama’s work has been exhibited around the world. His solo exhibition Cry, Baby, at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, in 2018 placed his paintings in dialogue with a selection of Warhol’s portraits of drag queens, giving new agency to Warhol’s subjects and continuing the conversation on sexuality, race, and queer performance. Shimoyama’s works have also been included in the following exhibitions: Make-Believe, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC; All the Rage, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany; When We See Us, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa; The Regional, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art, Curated by Alexandra Schwartz, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Elegies: Still Lifes in Contemporary Art, Curated by Monique Long, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Oh Gods of Dust and Rainbows, FRONT International Triennial, Cleveland, OH 2021; Futures, The Smithsonian Institution, Arts + Industries, Washington, D.C., VA; Fictions, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.About Omar López ChahoudOmar López-Chahoud has been the Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art since its founding in 2012. As an independent curator, López-Chahoud has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions in the United States and internationally. Most recently, he curated the Nicaraguan Biennial in March 2014. López-Chahoud has participated in curatorial panel discussions at Artists' Space, Art in General, MoMA PS1, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. López-Chahoud earned MFAs from Yale University School of Art, and the Royal Academy of Art in London.
Join us in conversation with the esteemed representatives of selected Premier Prize Partners of Untitled Art this year: Alice Gray Stites, Chief Curator for the 21c Museum Hotels; Jackie Herbst, Coordinator and Art Manager of CCA Andratx; and Derrick Adams, Founder of the Last Resort Artist Retreat. Moderated by Sarah Arison, President of the Arison Arts Foundation and Chair of the Board of YoungArts. This dynamic panel discussion aims to shed light on the importance of generating support for exhibitors, artists, and the larger art ecosystem beyond the traditional fair model, and will discuss each of the panelist's individual missions and visions. About Sarah Arison, ModeratorBorn and raised in Miami, Arison is President of the Arison Arts Foundation, a private grant-making organization that supports emerging artists and the institutions that foster them. She was immersed in the arts from a young age by her grandparents, visionary philanthropists Ted and Lin Arison, who founded Arison Arts Foundation, YoungArts, and the New World Symphony, among their many philanthropic endeavors. Arison is active across a broad cross-section of national arts organizations. She is Chair of the Board of YoungArts, where she has developed strategic partnerships with the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Jacob’s Pillow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sundance Film Festival and more to provide aspiring talent with presentation and mentorship opportunities. Arison is also the Chair of the board of MoMA PS1; a trustee of MoMA; Board President of American Ballet Theatre; a trustee of Lincoln Center; a trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and Chair of the Education Committee; a trustee at New World Symphony; a member of the Board of Directors of Americans for the Arts; and a trustee of the Americas Foundation of the Serpentine Galleries. Arison has also ventured into film producing, supporting projects that shed light on lesser known aspects of the arts. In 2015, she produced her first feature film, Desert Dancer, starring Freida Pinto. She later went on to co-produce The First Monday in May, a documentary film chronicling the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute blockbuster exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass. She co-produced The Price of Everything which was acquired by HBO and she most recently served as an executive producer for the film Aggie, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.Untitled Art's 2022 Exhibitor Prizes are:The Nest Prize by Vortic21c Museum Hotels Acquisition PrizeColección Solo Acquisition PrizeCCA Andratx Artist-in-Residence PrizeFountainhead Arts Residency PrizeThe Last Resort Artist Retreat Residency PrizeThe Pébéo Production Prize
Oliver Miro, founder of Vortic Art, in conversation with artist Gretchen Andrew, discussing the impact of XR (extended reality) technologies on the art world and bringing their complementary perspectives to the table. Together, they will discuss how digital and VR exhibiting solutions can encourage new dialogues between artists, galleries and collectors in a sustainable and accessible way. As Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022 digital partner and the leading sustainable digital platform for the arts, Vortic is committed to providing the highest quality virtual viewing experiences for galleries, collectors, and institutions. Gretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, code, and glitter. Through her merger of traditional painting and technology she reimagines reality with art and desire. In 2018 the V&A Museum released her book Search Engine Art. Starting in 2019 she became known for her vision boards and associated performative internet manipulations of art world institutions of Frieze Los Angeles, The Whitney Biennial, The Turner Prize, and The Cover of Artforum.About Oliver MiroOliver Miro is co-Founder of Vortic, an art led platform that aims to create a connected, collaborative conversation around immersive 3D, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) exhibitions from the world’s leading galleries and institutions.The impetus behind the founding of Vortic was a moment where, after more than a decade spent in the sales team of a leading international gallery, Oliver Miro became acutely conscious that the art world lacked a truly high quality way of presenting artworks digitally that would be engaging enough to captivate collectors, inspire artists, and help move galleries and institutions towards a more sustainable future.About Gretchen AndrewGretchen Andrew hacks systems of power with art, glitter and code. She is best known for her playful hacks on major art world and political institutions, including Frieze, The Whitney Biennial, Artforum, The Turner Prize, and 2020 American Presidential Results. Through her merger of traditional painting and technology she reimagines reality with art and desire. In response to her appropriation of Facebook and Instagram tracking technology, Fotomuseum Winterthur curator Marco De Mutiis said, "Her practice & approach is particularly significant because not only does she have a deep understanding of the logics and strategies of algorithmic systems of powers, she finds subversive ways to reclaim these tools and flip them against themselves." She trained in the studio of Billy Childish from 2013 - 2018.
Over the last several years, we have seen statues commemorating formerly venerated, now reviled, figures destroyed or removed from view, while the number of those honoring neglected (primarily Black and female figures) has increased. Must artists creating public monuments today think about their future as well as their significance to contemporary culture? Does advocacy have an aesthetic? How do the political beliefs of the commissioners and the artists intersect with their personal histories? Here are two artists whose work speaks volumes to these questions. About Hank Willis ThomasHank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country and abroad, including the International Center of Photography, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Musée du quai Branly, and the Witte de Witte Center for Contemporary Art. He is a cofounder of For Freedoms, now the largest community of citizen artists in America engaged in forging new paths to social justice “by any medium necessary.” In 2019, Unity, a public sculpture commissioned by New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, took up its permanent home in downtown Brooklyn. This January, on Boston Common, Thomas will unveil “The Embrace,” a monumental bronze he created as a permanent memorial for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King for the city of Boston, The Boston Foundation, and Embrace Boston. Thomas is the recipient of fellowships from the Gordon Parks Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Pace Gallery, Los Angeles; Ben Brown Fine Arts, London; Goodman Gallery, South Africa; and Marauni Mercier, Belgium.About Dara FriedmanDara Friedman is a German born artist and filmmaker working in Miami. Reducing the materials of her chosen medium to its essentials, her films, which often portray ritual actions and sounds, are both sensual and serene. Last summer, she exhibited a new work, The Tyger’s Tale, in San Cremona, Italy, and in 2017, the Perez Art Museum in Miami staged a mid-career survey, “Dara Friedman: Perfect Stranger.” Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the French National Collection and the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin. This year she went into production with ecologist Josh Smith on: River Hill, Silo City, University of Buffalo on a monumental garden and labyrinth transforming a quarter acre of post-industrial turf along the Buffalo River with hardy pollinators that will open to the public next spring. Among Friedman’s honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize, and residencies at the Hammer Museum and at Everglades National Park.About Linda YablonskyLinda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.
Ostensibly based on factual events, the narrative of American history often depends on who is telling the story and in what medium. Take our flag -- please. Once an emblem of unity, it is now a symbol of division. Art may not have to function as anything other than art, but let’s see what happens when the nation’s social fabric is its canvas.About Dread ScottDread Scott is an artist based in New York who has a history of social activism going back to 1989, when he joined a flag-burning ceremony on the steps of our nation’s Capitol that led to a landmark decision by the Supreme Court protecting free speech. His work in performance, photography and sculpture has been exhibited at MoMA/PS1, the Walker Art Center, CAM St. Louis, and street corners across the country. It is also in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Worcester Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2021, Scott was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 2019, he was named an Open Society Soros Equality Fellow. He also has won fellowships from United States Artists and Creative Capital. In 2019, his restaging, in New Orleans, of this country’s largest slave rebellion won widespread attention, as did his NFT video, White Male for Sale, when it was successfully auctioned at Christie’s last year.About Rujeko Hockley Rujeko Hockley is a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she co-curated its 2019 biennial and organized the acclaimed exhibition, “An Incomplete History of Protest (2017), as well as solo exhibitions by Jennifer Packer, Toyin Ojih Odutola and (with LACMA’s Christine Y. Kim) curated the Whitney’s 2021 Julie Mehretu retrospective. Previously, she was a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, where her credits include “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 (organized with Catherine Morris), and work on shows by LaToya Ruby Frazier and Kehinde Wiley. She also has served as a curatorial assistant at the Studio Museum in Harlem and is on the board of Art Matters. Born in Zimbabwe, Hockley grew up in Washington, D.C. and is married to the artist Hank Willis Thomas.About Linda YablonskyLinda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.
The body may be a battleground but so is art. People fight over it. Always have. What if art fights back? Speaks its mind? What happens to artists -- and their public -- when an artwork ambushes their expectations? What subjects and materials are vulnerable to changing values? When standards of beauty accepted by one culture are repudiated by another, which becomes the “norm” and who gets to say? Can an artwork affect attitudes or behavior -- particularly in regard to women‘s bodies -- and still retain its integrity as art? What is art, anyway? Shall we discuss?About Zoë BuckmanZoë Buckman was born in London, where she is represented by the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, and by Lyles & King in New York, where she lives now. Much of her transformative work, which involves embroidery (threads of trauma), textiles, video and photography, addresses domestic violence by highlighting women’s resilient capacity for tenderness. In addition to gallery exhibitions – she also has shown with Fort Gansevoort in New York and Gavlak in Los Angeles. Buckman has made several public artworks, including Champs, a lighted sign in Los Angeles commissioned by the Art Production Fund. Every night this month, just before midnight, her large-scale digital animation, MENDED, commissioned by Times Square Arts, is displaying her kaleidoscopic imagery – boxing gloves, mandalas, metal chains, flowers -- across twenty electronic billboards on Broadway at the crossroads of the world. About Jasmin WahiJasmine Wahi is a curator and social activist who cofounded the nonprofit Project for Empty Space in Newark, NJ and New York City. In addition, Wahi has organized independent projects across the world, including “Abortion Is Normal,” an ongoing series of exhibitions, and “American Truth.” She teaches at the Brooklyn College and is a core mentor of the Pratt School of Art’s Pratt Forward program. Previously, she was the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a member of the faculty at the Yale School of Art. She also delivered the TED talk, “All the women. In me. Are Tired.” Wahi lives in Brooklyn with her dog Momo. About Genevieve GaignardGenevieve Gaignard is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, where she is represented by the Susanne Vielmetter Gallery. Earlier this year, the gallery presented “Strange Fruit,” an ambitious exploration of the complex links between race, femininity and cultural identity. She was also included in “This Is Not America’s Flag” at the Broad Museum, a group exhibition detailing the fraught symbolism of our national emblem. Her work, including self-portraiture, collage, sculpture and installation, resides in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Perez Art Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Recently, Gaignard partnered with Orange Barrel Media on “Look At Them Look At Us,” a site sp specific, permanent public art installation in downtown Atlanta, GA.About Linda YablonskyLinda Yablonsky is a renowned critic and arts journalist based in New York. Over the last thirty years her byline has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times and T Magazine, Artforum, W Magazine, Art News, Bloomberg, and many more. In 2002 she helped to pioneer the streaming arts radio channel, WPS1 for MoMA PS1. She also founded and directed NightLight Readings (1991-1999), a monthly writers-in-performance series held at The Drawing Center and other art spaces in New York, and from 2002-2004 was literature curator for The Kitchen. Currently, she contributes the monthly column, New York Insider, to The Art Newspaper and is writing a major biography of the artist Jeff Koons.
As part of Untitled Art’s programming during the 11th edition of the fair, [NAME] Publications presents “SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES,” a series of three podcasts that focus on the often overlooked and forgotten dimensions of Miami's cultural history. Each part aims to reactivate the memory of some of Miami’s vital art scenes from the past 40 years: Part One will feature Dr. Donette Francis and focus on the contributions of Black artists and intellectuals that don’t often figure in local art histories; Part Two will be a behind-the-scenes look at the lost stories of a 80s art scenes in Miami Beach; and Part Three will be an in-depth look at the history of galleries in Miami.Part 3, Brook Dorsch is the founder of Emerson Dorsch Gallery. Founded in 1991, Emerson Dorsch has shaped the trajectory of the city’s contemporary art by championing artists at all stages of their careers both local and international—cultivating the dynamic exchanges between emerging and established practices.
As part of Untitled Art’s programming during the 11th edition of the fair, [NAME] Publications presents “SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES,” a series of three podcasts that focus on the often overlooked and forgotten dimensions of Miami's cultural history. Each part aims to reactivate the memory of some of Miami’s vital art scenes from the past 40 years: Part One will feature Dr. Donette Francis and focus on the contributions of Black artists and intellectuals that don’t often figure in local art histories; Part Two will be a behind-the-scenes look at the lost stories of a 80s art scenes in Miami Beach; and Part Three will be an in-depth look at the history of galleries in Miami. Part 2, Kevin Arrow is a multifaceted artist and cultural producer living and working in Miami, Florida. His work has been exhibited in South Florida since the mid-1980s and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, (MOCA), the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, and Miami Beach Art in Public Places.
As part of Untitled Art’s programming during the 11th edition of the fair, [NAME] Publications presents “SWAMP ARCHEOLOGIES,” a series of three podcasts that focus on the often overlooked and forgotten dimensions of Miami's cultural history. Each part aims to reactivate the memory of some of Miami’s vital art scenes from the past 40 years: Part One will feature Dr. Donette Francis and focus on the contributions of Black artists and intellectuals that don’t often figure in local art histories; Part Two will be a behind-the-scenes look at the lost stories of a 80s art scenes in Miami Beach; and Part Three will be an in-depth look at the history of galleries in Miami. Part 1, Donette Francis is the founding co-director for the Center for Global Black Studies and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami. Her research and writing investigate place, aesthetics, and cultural politics in the African Diaspora. Professor Francis is the author of “Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature.” She is currently working on two book projects: “Illegibilities: Caribbean Cosmopolitanisms and the Problem of Form,” an intellectual history of the Anglophone Caribbean’s transnational literary culture, 1940-1970; and “Creole Miami: Black Arts in the Magic City,” a sociocultural history of Black arts practice in Miami from 1970s to present.
The second part of this series welcomes back Omar López-Chahoud, Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, in conversation with Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova (Co-Founder and Co-Director of Dimensions Variable), Brook Dorsch (Founder of Emerson Dorsch), and Grant Bonnier (Owner and Curator of The Bonnier Gallery). The panel was organized by Untitled Art in collaboration with Art Club at Soho House, Miami Beach, and focuses on emerging galleries and art spaces in Miami, as the city's dynamic arts scene continues to expand.
Omar López-Chahoud, the Artistic Director and Curator of Untitled Art, in conversation with leading New York gallery directors exhibiting with Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022: Henrique Faria of Henrique Faria, C. Sean Horton of Sean Horton (Presents) and Jennifer Carvalho of CARVALHO PARK. This panel discussion is a sneak preview of the fair’s 11th edition in Miami Beach this December during the iconic Miami Art Week and part of a programming collaboration between Untitled Art and Soho House.
Untitled Art's Artistic Director & Curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud in conversation with independent curator and editor Natalia Zuluaga, co-director of [NAME] Publications, and Gabriel Kikongo, founder of Jupiter Contemporary, one of Miami's newest galleries. The panel was organized by Untitled Art in collaboration with Art Club at Soho Beach House, Miami, and focuses on emerging galleries and art spaces in Miami, as the city's dynamic arts scene continues to expand.
The Supper Club: What Comes After? centers on artist Elia Alba’s Supper Club, a multi-faceted art project that has brought together more than 50 contemporary artists of color from the United States through portraiture, food, and dialogue.
Future Knowing: Gallerists in Conversation, moderated by Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Natasha Becker.
A Conversation on Queer Space & Care co-presented by Oolite Arts and Untitled, with film maker GeoVanna Gonzalez and her collaborator, Monica Sorelle. The talk is moderated by Sally Eaves Hughes, curator of the exhibition Common Space, currently on view at Oolite Arts.
The experimental dance film explores the role of queer clubs as spaces of communal care, liberation, and self-preservation. This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, Common Space, currently on view at Oolite Arts.
Future Knowing: Curators in Conversation, moderated by Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Natasha Becker.
Participants include: María Elena Ortiz, Karen Vidangos, Nicole Calderón, and Arlene Dávila.
Drawn Together, a panel discussion on the dynamics drawn from living inside and outside the line of the Us-México Border. Presented by The Ant Project and the cultural institute of México in Miami.
Participants include: Artists from the Truth Farm Collective: Arleene Correa Valencia, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Ronald Rael in a conversation moderated by the ANT Project Founder, Guadalupe García. Adriana Torres, Director of the Cultural Institute of México in Miami.
Presented by Hyperpavilion, space, supported by AXA Investment Managers. Rolando Carmona of Hyperpavilion and artist Sofía Crespo in conversation exploring AI and the concepts revolving around augmented creativity.
Future Knowing: A Discussion with Artists and Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Natasha Becker.
Participants include: Ana Teresa Fernández (Catharine Clark Gallery), Alexander Lee (Marisa Newman Projects), Phyllis Stephens (Richard Beavers Gallery), Adébayo Boljai showing with BEERS London, Natasha Becker (Curator of African Art at the De Young Museum who is our moderator)
Julio Criado of Alarcón Criado Gallery exhibiting at the fair in booth B38, and DJ Hellerman, curator for SCAD Museum of Art, who join us today to discuss the work of artist Ira Lombardía.
Untitled Art Miami Beach guest curator Miguel A. López in conversation with Moving Feeling artists Jim Denomie (Bockley Gallery) and Sylvia Fernandez (Galería del Paseo)
Miguel A. López is a writer, researcher, and curator. Between 2015 and 2020, he worked at TEOR/éTica, in Costa Rica, first as chief curator and, from 2018, as co-director and chief curator. Recent curatorial projects include: ‘and if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?’ at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2021); ‘Cecilia Vicuña, a Retrospective Exhibition’ at Witte de With, Rotterdam (2019) and MUAC-UNAM, Mexico City (2020); co-curated ‘Virginia Pérez-Ratton. Central America: Desiring a Place’ at MUAC, Mexico City, (2019); ‘Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For’ at the Americas Society, New York (2019); and ‘Social Energies/Vital Forces. Natalia Iguiñiz: Art, Activism, Feminism (1994–2018)’ at ICPNA, Lima (2018njj). Recent books include: Ficciones disidentes en la tierra de la misoginia (Dissident Fictions in the Land of Misogyny) (2019), and Robar la historia. Contrarrelatos y prácticas artísticas de oposición (Stealing History: Counter-narratives and Oppositional Art Practices (2017). His writing has appeared in Afterall, Artforum, Art in America, e-flux journal, and Manifesta Journal, among others. López is also a co-founder of the independent art space Bisagra, active in Peru since 2014.
Beyond NFTs - Hosted by CADAF (international contemporary and digital art fair) x NDR NW MGMT (exhibiting at Untitled in booth C26)
Panelists: Raina Mehler, curator Ori Carino, artist Elena Zavelev, CEO and Founder of CADAF Andrea Steuer, Director and Designer (moderator)
NFTs have become mainstream and the art world is catching up while still assessing the use cases for blockchain technology in fine art. Traditional artists, galleries and institutions have been slow to legitimize it while the digital art community has become an early adopter. Today NFTs enable us to establish provenance, exhibition history and the authenticity of ownership in digital art and other assets. NFTs have also become a medium of its own where creators are using the technology both conceptually and aesthetically. This panel assesses the role of digital art and NFTs at the art fairs in Miami this year, as well as discusses the different styles of NFTs, the benefits of the technology, and how it might be used in the future since it opens up a world of new creative opportunities.
Paul Amenta of Site Lab hosts a live discussion onsite at Untitled Art Miami Beach on their Special Project in the fair’s Monuments section entitled Open Frame: Miami Beach. Amenta speaks with Chris Fox of Not Design Graphic Design Studio in Grand Rapids Michigan, along with collaborators and students from Calvin University, about their practice engaging with the public and live letterpress printing on the beach as part of the fair.
Presented by SF Artists Alumni (SFAA). This conversation revolves around Referencing ideas in the book The Disposable City by Mario Alejandro Ariza, SF Artists Alumni (SFAA) embraces the theme of resilience as it relates to the environment and society. As a group of San Francisco Art Institute Alumni, SFAA gathered strength during a moment of crisis to resurrect themselves in order to preserve the legacy of their alumni by forming the non-profit SF Artist Alumni. While cities have departments of resilience to foster how the city can react to climate change, vulnerable communities disproportionately composed of people of color are most affected by limited funding to protect themselves against potential disaster to their homes and sense of security. The site, Miami Beach, speaks to urgency while we see continuous progress through the construction occurring simultaneously. How do we create justice between the developers and ideas of sanctuary? Juxtaposed areas are economically divided by these environmental, political and governmental systems. Art as a vehicle brings awareness to these issues with poetic, psychological and visual aesthetics.
This program, recorded in July 2020 in the weeks leading up to UNTITLED, ART Online, focuses on the importance of Black-owned galleries and arts spaces in today's world. Hear the conversation with artist Genesis Tramaine, gallerist Richard Beavers, and Prizm Art Fair founder Mikhaile Solomon, moderated by Donnamarie Baptiste. As part of their participation in UNTITLED, ART Online, Phaidon & Artspace have produced a benefit edition by Brooklyn-based artist Genesis Tramaine to support programming, fellowships and grants at the New York Foundation for the Arts.
This conversation was recorded on July 14, 2020 in the lead up to UNTITLED, ART Online, which runs from July 31–Aug 2, 2020.
Jeff Lawson, Founder of UNTITLED, ART and Mattis Curth, Founder of Artland, discussed their collaboration on UNTITLED, ART Online, the world’s first virtual reality art fair in a conversation moderated by arts writer Brian Boucher.
Visual artist Binta Oxossi Ayofemi creates urban forms inspired by black abstraction through sound, movement, and space. Her first building as artwork, COMMONS, opens in Oakland in 2020, in collaboration with renowned architect Bonnie Bridges of Studio BBA. Studio BBA transforms buildings with historic fragments into contemporary buildings.
COMMONS began with Oxossi’s strategic cuts into the building as performance, next shaped as an opening or flow between form and function in dialogue with Studio BBA. The space transforms a formerly vacant music building in downtown Oakland, into a portal for gathering, sound, and sustenance. Inspired by both Black Panthers and Black Shakers, COMMONS infuses an Afrofuturist narrative with materials gathered, honed, and milled from Oakland.
Recorded in January at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, Oxossi Ayofemi and Bonnie Bridges discussed the making of COMMONS, explored contemporary art, architecture, race, buildings, urban subjects and urban material. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.
At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, Withersworldwide presented a lively conversation titled, "Fresh Perspectives on Collecting; What New Collectors Need to Know."
Beginning the process of collecting art can often be challenging for new collectors. Listen to a distinguished panel of experts discuss methods and tips on building an art collection with topics that range from current market trends and art financing to conservation and art insurance. Panelists include Kimberly Almazan, Special Counsel at Withersworldwide and Chair of the San Francisco Bar Association’s Art Law Section, Sophia Kinell, Regional Lead for the San Francisco Bay Area at Phillips, and Paul Becker, Art Money Founder and CEO. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation, recorded on January 18, 2020.
At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, three noted San Francisco artists working in diverse media discussed their art practices, concerns and challenges, and where the equity movement might lead in coming years.
Hear artists Indira Allegra, Katherine Vetne, and Erica Deeman, as well as Heidi Rabben, Senior Curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. This panel was organized by ArtTable Northern California, a chapter of the foremost professional organization dedicated to advancing the leadership of women in the visual arts. This year, ArtTable celebrates 40 years of women's advocacy and professional development.
Recorded live at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, textile artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren and Charlie Sutton, Head of Design for the Facebook App, discussed how ancient analog processes like weaving relate to new immersive technologies like virtual reality, and how both can address ideas of human connection and isolation. In creating an empathic user experience, what is the relationship between designing with physical materials versus virtual means? What does it mean for both analog and virtual creators to design outside the traditional rectilinear, two-dimensional frame? How do traditional collective activities like weaving connect with current advances in the game mechanics of virtual worlds? What role do these practices play in the service of amplifying human agency and providing spaces for authentic connection and discovery? James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.
At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2020, Mike Henderson, accomplished musician and Bay Area artist included in Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at the de Young Museum, performed a special musical set highlighting the influence of blues music on African American artists from the 1960s-1980s.
Listen now to hear Henderson and his band perform, and check out Writer in Residence, Brian Boucher's take on the performance at Pier 35 on Friday, January 17, 2020: https://medium.com/@UNTITLEDARTFAIR/
At UNTITLED, ART San Francisco, Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, conversed with gallerist Michael Rosenfeld to discuss Michael Rosenfeld Gallery’s curated presentation of artists exhibited in "Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983." The gallery’s booth presentation at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco will included works by such seminal artists as Frank Bowling, Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, and William T. Williams, among others. The conversation ranges in topics, from the prominence of abstraction in Soul of a Nation, the place of Africa in African American art, and the gallery’s long history exhibiting Black artists as well as the "discovery" of many older Black artists in today’s contemporary artworld. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.
Yelena Rachitsky, Executive Producer of Experiences at Oculus, and Kelly Sicat, the director of the Artistic Program and Lucas Artists Residency Program at Montalvo Arts Center, discussed how cultural producers working with both virtual and analog technologies are addressing the so-called “loneliness epidemic” by creating space for authentic empathic connections. Through the yearlong initiative SOCIAL: Investigating Loneliness Together, Montalvo brings together artists who are investigating how to foster social engagement in an age where social media both connects and isolates people. Oculus’s recent project Traveling While Black is a virtual reality documentary that immerses the viewer in the long history of restricted movement for Black Americans. James Voorhies, Chair, Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice, California College of the Arts, moderated the conversation.
Journalist Brian Boucher is UNTITLED, ART's inaugural San Francisco Writer in Residence. Join him as he interviews artist JPW3 and VIP Preview attendees during the live performance at "Food 4 Less," the artist's special project, presented by Night Gallery (C6). The artist made juice out of the plants grown in his three mobile gardens, in which he has been cultivating wheatgrass, agave, and tomatoes. Listen now to find out how the juice tasted.
UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach curator Jordan Stein speaks with several fellows from Artists in Residence in Everglades, AIRIE, about the work, processes, influences, and motivations around their research in the Florida Everglades. Having spent up to a month living and working in Everglades National Park, AIRIE fellows meet with ecologists, biologists, hydrologists, community leaders, and environmental advocates to study this complex ecosystem. Artists include Dana Levy, Harumi Abe, Christina Pettersson, and Onajide Shabaka.
In his final audio dispatch as Writer in Residence at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2019, Osman Can Yerebakan sits down with Pari Ehsan, the visionary behind @Paridust. The two discuss the prevalence of textile based art at the fair this year, specifically highlighting works by South American artists. Listen to a friendly conversation about their discoveries at the diverse galleries of UNTITLED, ART, as well as why dressing for Miami Art Week is a form of art in itself.
In conversation with curator Larry Ossei-Mensah, artist Damien Davis discusses the research surrounding his booth presentation with LatchKey Gallery and forthcoming solo exhibition at the Weeksville Heritage Center, titled “Collapse: Black Wall Street”. This exhibition is centered around the history of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, recently depicted by the HBO series Watchman and highlighted in the New York Times.
For his next audio dispatch from UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2019, Writer in Residence, Osman Can Yerebakan sits down with Carolyn Ramo, the Executive Director of Artadia. The two discuss new discoveries made on the fair floor, the successful trajectories of previous Artadia grant recipients, and the internationality of UNTITLED, ART year after year.
In this episode, UNTITLED, ART’s inaugural Writer in Residence, Osman Can Yerebakan, meets with Galerie Magazine’s Art and Culture Editor Lucy Rees. Perched on a Wendy White jofa in the lounge designed by the same artist, the two share their picks from the VIP and Press Preview. They discussed the intersection of art and design through artists blurring the distinction between sculpture and function, and mentioned a handful of names whose use of materiality, form, and dimension caught their eyes.
The gallery model is not in crisis: The world economic system is.
This episode historically and culturally contextualizes the gallery model to understand how we might update it for our current moment, and the future. The dealers featured are those who are thinking deeply about the nature of their program and the publics with whom they engage. They are propositioning alternatives to the dealer-critic system from the 19th century and fostering communities of collaboration, while still running physical spaces to exhibit emerging, experimental, and established work.
How can we support them, dealers like them, and the artists they support and exhibit, who are foundational to our culture and social well-being?
On the occasion of World Pride Month and the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, this episode celebrates Pride and explores the history of LGBTQ+ art-making since Stonewall. The episode opens with an excerpted performance by the artist Sheldon Scott, recorded at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach 2018. Listeners will also tour the exhibition "Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989" with curators Jonathan Weinberg and Drew Sawyer at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City. This episode also features an introduction to “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow” an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, with curators Lindsay C. Harris and Lauren Argentina Zelaya.
In this episode, host Amanda Schmitt travels to the Galleria Borghese in Rome to see "Bird Cage, a temporary shelter," by artist Zhang Enli. Hear Amanda speak with the artist, and curator Davide Quadrio, about the extraordinary project. This episode also features a conversation from a panel led by curator Xiaoyu Weng (Guggenheim, New York), along with curators and educators Marc Mayer (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco) and Marie Martraire (KADIST).
Featuring artists that work with analog synthesizers and new programming methods such as data sonification, this episode explores sound Beyond Language, featuring artist Adam Henry, as well as a redacted version of the three-day “Data as Art Material” program presented in collaboration with Cristobal Martinez and his students at the San Francisco Institute of Art at UNTITLED, ART San Francisco 2019.
This episode features an onsite visit to the exhibition “Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giufridda Collection,”with Alison Gass, the Director of the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago. Alison discusses the history of the exhibition and recounts the stories behind featured artworks by Bethany Collins, Leonardo Drew, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Samuel Levi Jones, Norman Lewis, and Amanda Williams, among others. The episode also features a special conversation with the co-curator of the exhibition, Christopher Bedford, Director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
This episode features the second part of panel that was recorded live from San Francisco’s The Battery on January 11, 2019. The panel --hosted by Ethan Appleby from State of the Art Podcast— revisits a lively discussion between Lynn Hershman Leeson (Artist), Erica Gangsei (Head of Interpretive Media, SFMOMA) and Dorothy R. Santos (Writer, Curator, and Researcher) on how technology has affected the way we experience contemporary art in the digital age and what this means for the future of art making and collecting. The episode also features a conversation with Pérez Art Museum Miami Assistant Curator, Jennifer Inacio, on the work of Miami-based artist Felice Grodin and her augmented reality exhibition.
This episode features a panel that was recorded live from San Francisco’s The Battery on January 11, 2019. The panel —hosted by Ethan Appleby from State of the Art Podcast— revisits a lively discussion between Lynn Hershman Leeson (Artist), Erica Gangsei (Head of Interpretive Media, SFMOMA) and Dorothy R. Santos (Writer, Curator, and Researcher) on how technology has affected the way we experience contemporary art in the digital age and what this means for the future of art making and collecting. The episode also features a conversation with Scott Zieher (ZieherSmith) on the work of artist Rachel Rossin and her integration of oil painting and virtual reality.
This episode features a panel that was broadcast live from San Francisco’s The Battery on November 7, 2018. The panel --hosted by Untitled Art's curator of Special Projects and Books & Editions, Juana Berrío-- invites Robin Wright (co-founder, RITE Editions), Margaret Tedesco (founder, 2nd floor projects), and Vee Moran (co-founder, Owl Cave Books) to join in conversation about books that were created within the context of art. The episode also features a reading of Virginia Woolf by artist and bookmaker Brook Hsu.
From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode explores our relationship with travel and what it means to experience an “other”. This episode features artists, musicians, writers including Meriem Bennani, Marina Reyes Franco, Hector Arce Espasas, Sara Ludy, Sadria Baniasadi, Prem Krishnamurthy and Maayann Strauss, Mera and Don Rubell, Andy and Deborah Rappaport, and Williams S Smith.
From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode looks back on four years of radical women who have the double-X chromosome and a triple-X threat. Contributors include to this episode Liliana Porter, Sylvia Meyer, INVASORIX, Cathy Byrd with Zoe Buckman, Anna Ostoya and Ben Lerner, artist collective CARNE, Catherine Taft with Badlands Unlimited, FLUCT, as well as Autumn Knight and Chelsea Knight. Hosted by Amanda Schmitt.
From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode dives into the projects and presentations based on fiction that have been broadcast live from the fair since 2015, including fragments of programs that featured readings of short stories, musical theater and performance art, as well as artists and writers who have produced dramas created to be presented on radio itself. This episode includes contributions from Cesar Aira and New Directions Press, Piper Marshall, Sergio Vega, Scott Reeder, Ei Arakawa, Dan Poston, Stefan Tcherepnin, Anne McGuire and Wayne Grim, and Constance Tenvik. Hosted by Amanda Schmitt.
From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode focuses on sound and noise in contemporary art, focusing on that which cannot be seen, but only heard. This episode features artists, curators, writers and musicians including Archival Feedback, DROOIDS, Maria Antelman, Ceci Moss, Robin Cameron and Ted Turner, Claire Wilson, Culture Hole, Shannon Stratton and Harry Bertoia, as well as music by Celia Hollander from the score for Madeline Hollander's performance MILE (Untitled, Miami Beach 2015). Hosted by Amanda Schmitt.
From the archives of Untitled, Radio, this episode reflects on seven years of artistic and creative collaborations that have been activated by the UNTITLED, Art fairs Miami Beach and San Francisco. This episode features artists and curators that embody that collaborative spirit including contributions by Cheryl Pope, John Miller, Madeline Hollander, Amanda Keeley, Stairwell’s, Anthony Huberman and Apsara DiQuinzio, and Konstmusiksystraar, as well as music by Celia Hollander from the score for Madeline Hollander's performance MILE (Untitled, Miami Beach 2015. Hosted by Amanda Schmitt.